Lawyers seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom’s government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel have submitted their case to the high court in London, according to the Guardian newspaper.
The lawsuit is backed up by 14 witness statements by Palestinian and Western medical doctors, covering more than 100 pages and including descriptions of Palestinians being tortured, left untreated in hospital and unable to escape constant Israeli bombardment in Gaza, the report said.
The case has been brought by an alliance of NGOs, including Al-Haq, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), Amnesty International, Oxfam and Human Rights Watch, according to the Guardian.
The report said this was the first attempt to put such graphic testimony of alleged Israeli war crimes in front of a British judge since October 7 last year.
Source: AlJazeera
